This is not specifically a GIT question so much as a development workflow question (GIT vs. SVN will produce similar WordPress workflows given the details you provided). If the changes the client wants to make don’t depend directly on specific DATA then you don’t need to sync your PROD data down to your local environment … Read more
In your screenshot, there’s an Embed option with <script> tag in it. Take that code and add it to a Custom HTML block.
Mark Jaquith maintains a git repo of WordPress, synced with the SVN every half hour. https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress He also describes how to work with WP in git here: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/developing-on-wordpress-using-git/
This is due to the Content Security Policy (CSP) that Github rolled out in April 2013. CSP shouldn’t cause problems with bookmarklets, but it does in practice. The issue isn’t specific to PressThis either. It causes problems with bookmarklets from Pinboard, Pocket and Instapaper. In Chrome you can hit F12 to open the developer tools … Read more
I set up every environment with a fresh WordPress installation. Then I do an initial commit from my local dev and start working there with Gitflow Workflow. Then I deploy the develop branch to the staging environment and the master branch to the live site. I ignore all the uploads in wp-content/uploads. Every instance will … Read more
WordPress Core files not being ignored by Git
You can try using Source Tree https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/, no need to learn heavily the command line git, all the non coders need to do is copy their files to your repo, then commit and push if there are no complications that will arise. The only bad side of this is if there will be merge issues … Read more
You can use WordMove. I have been using WordMove for deployment from last 3 months and it helps easily sync your local and live instance. And its very easy to use as well. Wordmove is a gem that lets you automatically mirror local WordPress installations and DB data back and forth from your local development … Read more
Can i, with Git, checkout the most current repo from my live server to my local machine? No, unless you also add the wp-content folder under version control. You can instead look at other tools, such as rsync. As for the database, you could make the live server accept remote MySQL connections, so that you … Read more
I took a risk and activated the theme to see what might happen. Roots needs to complete theme activation to add the rules into .htaccess. Until this happens none of the CSS / JS will load and the theme preview lacks stylesheets. It turns the stock .htaccess: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase … Read more